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Progressive Faith Blog Con
The Progressive Faith Blog Con is coming up. Register, save $20, and come to learn and share and meet people. I’ll be there. Technorati Tags: progfaithblogcon
On Being a Conservative-Liberal Muslim (or why the progressive label is bad)
Several things began to come together in my thinking at the MLT Conference in Copenhagen. To be clear, it was not a result of the planning of the MLT, but a series of amorphous thoughts that started to click from meeting people at the conference. With the Progressive Faith Blog Con coming straight after, these ideas began gaining more clarity. Coincidentally, both the good folks at Progressive Islam (1, 2, 3) and Von Aurum published pieces that further moved my thoughts forward. I had been planning on this post for some time, but as the adage goes “Man proposes, God…